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Show BROTHERHOODS AND WESTERN ROADS PARLEY I I I I President of Union Pacific Heads Delegation for Lines. j CHICAGO. Oct. 2. Negotiations ; for new wage and working arcomri's with tho westefn ra'lroads wcro bo-gun bo-gun today at a conference of a committee com-mittee of tho general managers' as- : sociatlon end W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherbood of Railroad Trainmen, Train-men, nnd L E. Sheppard. president ,of tho Order of Railway Conductors-! W. M. Jeffers. general manager of the Union Pacific, headed the committee, J 'which represented the principal lines j west of the Mississippi river. The negotiations were started last 'February but were discontinued In May. pmdln'r meetings Of tho Big Four brotherhoods and with the shopmen's shop-men's strike which began July 1 wers dropped lor tin- time l.euiK- l-ee and Sheppard have reached agreement.-. iwlth the principal eastern road nd While neither of them nor Mr Jeff era would make- u prediction as to the outcome of the conference here, there' 'was no indication thiit an agreement! would not be reached promptly All parties to the conference said I there would be no announcement of the progress of the negotiations before be-fore night. |